The beautiful blue-tailed species so abundant in Ke was not seen here.

The Aru lizards are more varied but more sombre in their colours--shades of green, grey, brown, and even black, being very frequently seen.

Every shrub and herbaceous plant was alive with them, every rotten trunk or dead branch served as a station for some of these active little insect-hunters, who, I fear, to satisfy their gross appetites, destroy many gems of the insect world, which would feast the eyes and delight the heart of our more discriminating entomologists.

Another curious feature of the jungle here was the multitude of sea-shells everywhere met with on the ground and high up on the branches and foliage, all inhabited by hermit-crabs, who forsake the beach to wander in the forest.

I lave actually seen a spider carrying away a good-sized shell and devouring its (probably juvenile) tenant.